Anita DeStefano
Profiles

Anita L DeStefano, PhD

Professor, Biostatistics - Boston University School of Public Health

adestef@bu.edu

Biography

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Other Positions

  • Investigator - Framingham Heart Study
  • - Boston Medical Center
  • Member, Genome Science Institute - Boston University

Education

  • Cornell University, PhD Field of Study: Animal Breeding/Biometry
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, MS Field of Study: Dairy Science
  • Cornell University, BS Field of Study: Veterinary Science

Publications

  • Published on 2/21/2025

    Wang B, Chibnik LB, Choi SH, Blacker D, DeStefano AL, Lin H. Association of genetic risk of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive function in two European populations. Sci Rep. 2025 Feb 21; 15(1):6410. PMID: 39984543.

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  • Published on 12/4/2024

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  • Published on 10/20/2024

    Lee WP, Choi SH, Shea MG, Cheng PL, Dombroski BA, Pitsillides AN, Heard-Costa NL, Wang H, Bulekova K, Kuzma AB, Leung YY, Farrell JJ, Lin H, Kunkle BW, Naj A, Blue EE, Nusetor F, Wang D, Boerwinkle E, Bush WS, Zhang X, De Jager PL, Dupuis J, Farrer LA, Fornage M, Martin E, Pericak-Vance M, Seshadri S, Wijsman EM, Wang LS, Schellenberg GD, Destefano AL, Haines JL, Peloso GM. Association of common and rare variants with Alzheimer's disease in more than 13,000 diverse individuals with whole-genome sequencing from the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Dec; 20(12):8470-8483. PMID: 39428839.

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  • Published on 9/18/2024

    Krüger DM, Pena-Centeno T, Liu S, Park T, Kaurani L, Pradhan R, Huang YN, Risacher SL, Burkhardt S, Schütz AL, Wan Y, Shaw LM, Brodsky AS, DeStefano AL, Lin H, Schroeder R, Krunic A, Hempel N, Sananbenesi F, Blusztajn JK, Saykin AJ, Delalle I, Nho K, Fischer A. The plasma miRNAome in ADNI: Signatures to aid the detection of at-risk individuals. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Nov; 20(11):7479-7494. PMID: 39291752.

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  • Published on 6/12/2024

    Xu H, Gupta S, Dinsmore I, Kollu A, Cawley AM, Anwar MY, Chen HH, Petty LE, Seshadri S, Graff M, Below P, Brody JA, Chittoor G, Fisher-Hoch SP, Heard-Costa NL, Levy D, Lin H, Loos RJ, Mccormick JB, Rotter JI, Mirshahi T, Still CD, Destefano A, Cupples LA, Mohlke KL, North KE, Justice AE, Liu CT. Integrating Genetic and Transcriptomic Data to Identify Genes Underlying Obesity Risk Loci. medRxiv. 2024 Jun 12. PMID: 38903089.

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  • Published on 3/21/2024

    Wang Y, Sarnowski C, Lin H, Pitsillides AN, Heard-Costa NL, Choi SH, Wang D, Bis JC, Blue EE, Boerwinkle E, De Jager PL, Fornage M, Wijsman EM, Seshadri S, Dupuis J, Peloso GM, DeStefano AL. Key variants via the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project whole genome sequence data. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 May; 20(5):3290-3304. PMID: 38511601.

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  • Published on 1/23/2024

    Leung YY, Naj AC, Chou YF, Valladares O, Schmidt M, Hamilton-Nelson K, Wheeler N, Lin H, Gangadharan P, Qu L, Clark K, Kuzma AB, Lee WP, Cantwell L, Nicaretta H, Haines J, Farrer L, Seshadri S, Brkanac Z, Cruchaga C, Pericak-Vance M, Mayeux RP, Bush WS, Destefano A, Martin E, Schellenberg GD, Wang LS. Human whole-exome genotype data for Alzheimer's disease. Nat Commun. 2024 Jan 23; 15(1):684. PMID: 38263370.

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  • Published on 11/7/2023

    Lary CW, Ghatan S, Gerety M, Hinton A, Nagarajan A, Rosen C, Ross RD, Bennett DA, DeStefano AL, Ikram MA, Rivadeneira F, Kiel DP, Seshadri S, Beiser A. Bone mineral density and the risk of incident dementia: A meta-analysis. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024 Jan; 72(1):194-200. PMID: 37933827.

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  • Published on 10/25/2023

    Wang D, Scalici A, Wang Y, Lin H, Pitsillides A, Heard-Costa N, Cruchaga C, Ziegemeier E, Bis JC, Fornage M, Boerwinkle E, De Jager PL, Wijsman E, Dupuis J, Renton AE, Seshadri S, Goate A, DeStefano AL, Peloso GM. Frequency of Variants in Mendelian Alzheimer's Disease Genes within the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP). medRxiv. 2023 Oct 25. PMID: 37961373.

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  • Published on 9/2/2023

    Lee WP, Choi SH, Shea MG, Cheng PL, Dombroski BA, Pitsillides AN, Heard-Costa NL, Wang H, Bulekova K, Kuzma AB, Leung YY, Farrell JJ, Lin H, Naj A, Blue EE, Nusetor F, Wang D, Boerwinkle E, Bush WS, Zhang X, De Jager PL, Dupuis J, Farrer LA, Fornage M, Martin E, Pericak-Vance M, Seshadri S, Wijsman EM, Wang LS, Schellenberg GD, Destefano AL, Haines JL, Peloso GM. Association of Common and Rare Variants with Alzheimer's Disease in over 13,000 Diverse Individuals with Whole-Genome Sequencing from the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project. medRxiv. 2023 Sep 02. PMID: 37693521.

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